Chapter 131 Survivor Voss
Come out of the valley where the Exile Town is located and walk about 800 meters southwest, you will see an abandoned pasture.
Players passed by here twice when they were doing expedition missions. Each time, players ran in with the mentality of triggering hidden missions, but left disappointed... Except for a row of collapsed wooden farmhouses and a few half-brick and stone warehouses without roofs, there was not even a bird feather to be found in this broken place.
Qin Guan led the three girls along the path at the foot of the mountain. When they saw the drama in this place for the first time, their first reaction was: "Wow - it feels like a horror movie!"
"This place is too shabby." Qiyuexue looked around curiously, "Are there any NPCs here? Is there a zombie squatting in a corner like in Exile Town?"
"There are no NPCs. If there were, they would have been discovered long ago." Qin Guan waved his bone claws, "Don't waste time. Use the identification technique to scan any suspicious places. You will definitely find the quest item."
The three girls then obediently used their identification skills in every corner...
Players with a potential value of 40 or above will automatically obtain (activate) the "Identification Skill", which has a CD of 30 seconds before it can be used again. It can identify any item-type items, NPCs with a level difference of no more than four levels, and equipment on NPCs. It is the skill most frequently used by players - just like in traditional PC online games, when players see someone, they instinctively right-click the mouse to check the equipment and level information.
After searching the abandoned farm for a long time, the players finally made a discovery.
"Got it!" The discoverer was Qiyuexue. After scanning the information, she immediately called out to her friends with joy, "This well! There is something in the well!"
Qin Guan hurried over and used his newly recovered identification technique towards the dry well that Qiyuexue pointed at. In his field of vision, about six or seven meters below the well, a few bold words appeared: "Secret door."
"So it was hidden underground. No wonder others didn't find anything when they came here before." Qin Guan muttered, looked around, ran into the farmhouse next to him, and dug out a few reins that were probably used to lead cattle and horses.
The rope was tied into a long strip, one end was tied to a horse post driven into the ground, and the other end was hung down into the well. Qin Guan volunteered to go down the well first to see the situation - if it were in reality, he would not have the ability to hang down into the well by just grabbing a rope. In the game, there are not so many restrictions, and the player's self-respect is not that important.
At the bottom of the dark, damp, moss-covered well, Qin Guan felt along the shape of the secret door he had identified for a long time but couldn't find the mechanism to open the door... In anger, he pushed hard, and the stone slab blocking the door actually moved away by itself.
Qin Guan: “…”
Fortunately, the place was narrow and the girls didn’t come down, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to show off his skills as a big boss.
The stone slab blocking the door was not stable on the slippery and messy stones to begin with, and it slid away lightly, revealing a hole that was obviously dug out by hand.
Behind the stone slab is a zombie.
The zombie with a green face, protruding mouth and ragged clothes was hugging his knees and sitting upright in a half-meter-wide hole.
When Qin Guan saw it, it also saw Qin Guan, and its blue-gray eyes stared at him blankly.
"Fuck!" Qin Guan made a tactical backward move on the spot.
"Ah~" The zombie also let out a terrified scream and raised his arms stiffly to cover his head.
Because the zombies move and pronounce very slowly, the screams and the movements of raising their hands to hold their heads are like slow-motion shots in a movie, very leisurely...
Qin Guan: “…”
Qin Guan was so upset that he threw an identification spell at the zombie, and green letters representing the friendly camp immediately appeared on the top of the zombie's head: "Survivor Voss".
"They are really one of our own!" Qin Guan secretly pinched his thigh bone, "Of course the zombies and undead are one of our own, I am not scared at all!"
As I said, luckily the place underground is narrow and the girls can’t come down... otherwise he would have lost face.
"Are you Voss?" Qin Guan asked tentatively.
The zombie NPC slowly put down his hand, stared at Qin Guan with his blue-gray eyes in a not-very-obvious "horror" (zombies can't make expressions), and slowly said: "I, I'm Voss, who are you? Are you here to arrest me for Charlotte?"
"Of course not. Charlotte died a long time ago, and you died a long time ago... well, it doesn't matter." Qin Guan waved his hand, "What did Charlotte do to you? Do you know where Merry Bowen is?"
"Really? Charlotte is dead... That damn bastard should have gone to hell a long time ago!" The survivor Voss expressed his excitement by shaking his body, but his tone was still slow, which was very distracting.
Fortunately, the player didn't care about this, as long as he could get the mission clues... Then, this zombie NPC who was responsible for the important plot clues readily gave Qin Guan the information he wanted:
"Charlotte wanted us dead and to silence those of us who disobeyed him. He sent us on impossible missions and deceived everyone."
"Everyone else died, including Merry. I was the only one who escaped back... I had to tell everyone what happened. It was very important - but I failed. I was caught by Charlotte's scouts."
At this point, the survivor Voss stopped talking, staring blankly at Qin Guan with his blue-gray pupils, his mouth full of yellow teeth opened wide, and his hard zombie body shook rhythmically.
Qin Guan looked at the zombie NPC expressionlessly.
He is an old game expert and can guess with his knees what the NPC will do and at which step to express the plot during a plot-oriented mission.
But at this moment, he really wanted to complain - please don't force the zombie NPCs to look horrified! Planners, please let the zombie NPCs go! Or you can go fight the modeler who designed the zombie NPCs so realistically! !
"Are you scared, Voss?" Qin Guan tried his best to control his urge to complain and continued the interaction dryly.
"I... I was taken to Charlotte's long-wool sheep ranch and locked up..." The survivor Voss said "tremblingly", "I can only tell the scout that very important thing... that very, very important thing..."
"What's that?" Qin Guan asked patiently.
"Merry discovered a secret. Charlotte is the apostle of the dead Kazan." The survivor Voss said in fear, "The dead Kazan is the evil god who demands death... Wherever his apostles appear, people's deaths will be intensified - Charlotte deliberately applied to lead the pioneering group. He did not do this for the Principality of Shiga to gain new territory. All he wanted was the death of the pioneers!"
Qin Guan said "Oh", his intuition was indeed amazing. Charlotte, the pioneer general who was always trying to make his presence felt, was really going to jump out as the BOSS - after defeating the inner demons of the high-level NPCs, it would probably be the turn of the corpse whipper .
"The scout was frightened and asked me to hide in the well... I had just hidden in when I heard his dying wail - he was dead!" The survivor Voss lowered his head and held his face in pain with his skinny hands.
Then, it suddenly seemed to have discovered something and stared at its hands in a daze.
After a long while, the zombie NPC said quietly, "Ah... No wonder I am still alive after becoming like this... It turns out that I was also sacrificed to Kazan."
Looking at the stiff performance of this zombie NPC, Qin Guan, who originally found it a bit ridiculous, suddenly felt his scalp tingling.
The survivor Voss slowly raised his head, stared at Qin Guan from bottom to top for a while, and said: "You... don't look like a living person, compatriot, are you also a sacrifice?"
Qin Guan: "...What a joke! Why do we look different?!"
Not to mention that everything is undead and there is a discrimination chain, the planner is so cruel as to model the player's character into a zombie NPC. He will be the first to quit the game!
"Eh...wait a minute, this plot is about the origin of the undead creatures?" Qin Guan stroked his chin and pondered, "Only those who were killed by the evil god who didn't hold back their farts will become undead, is that what it means?"
"That's not right, there's a conflict - in the previous world view breakthrough mission, the exiles were clearly killed by the evil gods summoned by the enslaved people... Hmm, does that mean that no matter which evil god kills them, they will become undead?"
"The unknown evil god that is contagious in the quest "Family Letter", the god of death Kazan who makes the apostles harm people, two evil gods have appeared while most players are still in the novice village. Are they setting up so many evil gods to prepare for them to be used as bosses by players in the middle and late stages?"
Anyway, as long as there is a health bar, defeating the evil god is not a big deal for players. It’s fine as long as it drops good stuff... Qin Guan no longer thought about it and continued to interact with the player in a very player-like manner: "Where is Merry Bowen? Where is her...her body?"
The survivor Voss asked, "Why are you looking for Merry, fellow?"
"Do the mission." Qin Guan said.
This sentence obviously did not contain the key words to activate the zombie NPC to continue interacting. The survivor Voss just stared at him dryly, as if he hadn't heard it.
Qin Guan grabbed the bald skull head, thought for a moment, and said, "Because Hugh Porter and Bildad asked us to help find her."
The survivor Voss finally responded, trying hard to act in pain: "Bildad was also sacrificed, so the others were not spared either?"
"That's right. Everyone in Exile Town is dead. They have either turned into zombies or skeletons." Qin Guan said expressionlessly.
There are key words in this sentence. The survivor Voss sighed and said, "The power that the dead Kazan projected into the material plane is very weak. He cannot directly demand death, but can only cleverly steal some of the wealth of the god of death... He takes away the eternal peace from those killed by his apostles, and those who are unfortunate enough to become sacrifices will become undead creatures."
Qin Guan said "Oh" again, he was confused again... He guessed right, the undead creatures were really created by the evil god, and there were more than just "Kazan the Dead" who were fleecing the god of death.
"I don't know if Merry is lucky enough. If she is unlucky, maybe you can find her in the mines."
After the survivor Voss finished performing this scene, Qin Guan heard Xi Shisan lying on the well mouth and shouting: "Boss Vanilla, there is progress on the mission, the next mission has popped up!"
Qin Guan immediately abandoned Voss, with whom he had at least "chatted" for a while, and climbed out of the well without hesitation, grabbing the rope - without even asking "Do you want to go back to Exile Town and reunite with your other compatriots?" This is how realistic players are to NPCs.
